OSX 10.4.8 on x86 Options

[impala454]

While talking to a guy at work, somehow the topic got onto OSX for x86, and he mentioned he has the 10.4.8 version (SSE3 only) with the security check for that apple hardware piece disabled. He just brought me the DVD a few mins ago, so I'll give it a shot some time in the next couple days and let you guys know how well it works. I don't mind reformatting several times in the past couple months considering I'm beta testing vista. Oh and he says it's supposed to work on AMDs too. If it works I'll figure out some way to get it to anyone else on here who wants it.

ps if you don't have the SSE3 my coworker says he has the 10.4.6 also.

[Hartmann]

To edit the behavior of the "Home" and "End" keys (technically, they do what they're supposed to, "Page Up" and "Page Down" are what you are looking for), anyway, do the following:

Open Terminal and type:

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cd ~/Library/

Do an ls to see if the "KeyBindings" folder exists.

If it doesn't:

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mkdir KeyBindings

go into the KeyBindings directory and then type:

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nano DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Copy and paste the following in:

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{
        /* Remap Home / End to be correct  */
        "\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
        "\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfLine:";
        "$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";
        "$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";
}

If you want corrected functionality for the page up and page down keys copy this in instead:

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{
    /* home */
    "\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
    "$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";

    /* end */
    "\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfLine:";
    "$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";

    /* page up/down */
    "\UF72C"  = "pageUp:";
    "\UF72D"  = "pageDown:";
}

Do a Ctrl-x and make sure you save the file.

You will have to close and reopen the applications that you want to see this on but you won't have to reboot. Also, this doesn't work (for some reason) in Firefox.